Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

/ The u. \. r. boys are making arrange
meutS 10 pay OF the mortgage on Com
/ rade Logan's homestead.
| A sleigh-load OF twenty young people
was struck by train at Fort Wayne.
Ind: two We're Killed aud eight severely
injured.
/ The fund, started in Washington, for the
relief Of Mrs Gen. Logan. has already
+ reached $50, 900. II will be Invested in
government four per cents.
/ Thirty-one thousand six hundred and
twenty-nine immigrants arrived in the
/ United States during November, against
/ 20 ,070 in November last year.
The executive committee OF the Mon
| treal winter carnival has issued its pre-
! liminary program. The dates for the
carnival are February to -, inclusive.
Another sea serpent has just reared its
awful head or Richport, Mass, coming
ashore and giving the natives the jim
jams When captured the thing proved
TO be an old hemlock log-as usual.
A San Francisco paper believes that
when the angel Gabriel blows his horn
vast army of lawyers will rise up and
from sheer force OF habit move for a con-
tinuance OF the cases before the court.
The Temple theatre at Philadelphia was
destroyed by fire on Monday forenoon. 1t
cost 100000 and was regarded the hand
soonest theatre building in the country.
Two tiremen were killed by falling walls.
A hre broke out Friday in the reserved
Enclosure in Peoples park at Madras,
British India, where the annual fair was
being held. A panic ensued and 275 ma
tives were burned or crushed to death.
No Europeans were killed.
Canadian schooner has been seized
by the Dominion cutter Gen. Middleton
on charge of having an American mas
ter and crew. The real crime charged
against the vessel is smuggling sardines
purchased in Canadian waters to the
Eastport factories.
Jim Cummings, the notorious train
robber, and two associates were captur-
ed in Chicago recently. Tney had So,
600 with them. 1t is reported that Foth-
eringham, the express messenger, has
made confession revealing those impli-
Gated in the robbery.
The removal of the snow which fell in
an appalling loss of life, many travellers
being overtaken by the storm. Fifty bod
les have been found in Saxony, thirty in
Thuringia and forty in southern Germany.
1t is estimated that the loss of life will be
nearly two hundred.
The Illinois legislature which will elect
a successor to Senator Logan, is repub-
lican in both branches, and on joint bal
lot stands Republicans 10, Democrats
81, Labor 9, greenback Democrats ,, Pro-
hibitionists l, Independent l. The Sena-
tor is elected January Is. The unexpir-
ed term is four years.
The past year was black one
for the fire insurance companies. Up to
December LIST, there had been sos, OOO,-
600 worth of property destroyed by fire
in the United States and Canada. The
losses for November exceeded the aver
age for that month for ten years by ST.
100000. and December made an equally
bad showing.
The biggest sort of a snow-storm of
this or any other recent season has pre-
vailed in Michigan recently. There are
over five feet of snow on level in the
exposed places, while in the ravines it is
some six feet deep. The Michigan Gen.
enger trains. Three east bound passeu-
ger trains became stalled in drifts and it
required nearly all day with five locomo-
tives to bring them in.